Stephen Chow said: What is the difference between people who have no dreams and salted fish.

But once a person has a dream, he has a direction and a meaning in life.

At this moment, John is like this, he is immersed in his own movie world, while constantly recalling the plot of the movie "Stealing Love", while forgetting himself to write and devoting himself to the creation of the script .......

Phil is a weather announcer, and in addition to giving humorous weather forecasts to the audience every day, he also travels to a border town called Psutani on February 2 every year to report on the annual Groundhog Day celebration.

In fact, Phil is quite scornful of the holiday, he doesn't like his job, he doesn't like his life, he doesn't like the people around him, and he doesn't even have a good feeling for himself. This has led him to become an unlikable person as well.

When he routinely finished reporting on this year's Groundhog Day celebration, he couldn't wait to return home, but was delayed by a sudden snowstorm and had no choice but to return to the town.

When he wakes up on Day 2, Phil unexpectedly discovers that time has been frozen in the previous day's Groundhog Day, and that yesterday has all happened again. Surprise, disbelief, excitement, ecstasy, boredom, anxiety, restlessness, despair, burnout and other emotions take turns to invade Phil's inner world, but no matter how he chooses to spend this day, he can never get out of ....... ”

For a week, John spent the rest of his time in the room writing scripts, except for eating and getting up in the morning to exercise, which reminded him of his previous life when he had just graduated from Yenching Film Academy in Huaxia and was so desperate when he entered the film industry.

After more than a week of hard work, John finally finished writing the last word of the script.

"Hoo ......"

After exhaling deeply, John put down the Parker pen in his hand and rubbed his sore wrists as he looked at the standard movie script on the table, feeling a sense of accomplishment rising in his heart.

The film script is very important in the components of a film, it is the foundation of everything, and the later storyboard and shooting plan need to be completed on the basis of it.

The storyboard script, also known as the production script, is an intermediate medium that transforms the text into a three-dimensional audio-visual image, a blueprint for the director's comprehensive design and conception of the film, and a direct expression of the director's transformation of his own thoughts into frame-by-frame images. It is an essential preparation in the creation of a film.

The role of the storyboard is like the blueprint of the building, it is the basis and blueprint for the photographer to shoot, the editor to carry out post-production, and it is also the basis for the actors and all creative personnel to understand the director's intention, understand the content of the script, and recreate. At the same time, it is also a good promotional material.

The production cost of "Stealing Love" is about $10 million, and John currently only has more than $8 million, and the funding gap is very large, and he doesn't want to find his mother's help, so he has to find a way to raise funds by himself.

And the only way John can think of raising money is through ad placement, and "Stealing Love" takes place in a modern town, so that many ads can be implanted.

For example, the TV station where the protagonist works, the car he drives, the drink machine in the restaurant, the alarm clock next to the protagonist's bed, the radio, the piano played by the protagonist...... And so on, these can be done for advertising placement, and a lot of advertising placement funds are pulled for John.

When soliciting sponsorship, it will be very advantageous to have a storyboard script, and it is better to let investors see the position of his product in the movie, so that they will willingly pay for the movie.

Although sometimes the placement of advertisements will affect the artistry of the film, John is a realistic person, how to create art without money, and art also needs money to support.

So John never thinks about whether it's artistic or commercial. He is a realistic person, he only knows that making movies is his dream, and to achieve this dream it takes money.

After the storyboard was completed, John also needed to complete the film "Shooting Plan". A stall owner needs to be seriously considered.

"What ...... sell?"

"How do you sell ......?"

"Where do you sell ......?"

Not to mention making a movie.

Film is an unpredictable industry, which needs to be treated with a rigorous attitude and scientifically planned every link.

Pre-preparation, working crew, actors, shooting equipment, post-production...... These are the keys to making a movie. If it is not planned in the early stage, then there will be problems in the later filming process.

So John had to carefully plan every link, even the subtleties, and the first plan must be the movie actors.

In his previous life, the actor in "Stealing Love" was played by Bill Murray. John was not prepared to continue to use him in this life, there was a man in John's heart who was more talented in comedy than Bill Murray, at least John thought so.

This man is known as the king of Hollywood comedy, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor twice, and is known as the uncrowned king because he did not win an Oscar, this person is Jim Carrey.

Don't think that Jim Carrey will only use the developed facial nerves to make the audience laugh, in fact, his performance in literary films is also very good, such as the classic movie "Truman's World" starring him.

As for the fact that he has made so many good films, why can't he win an Oscar?

That's because of his exaggerated acting style, and that neurologically developed face really doesn't please the old men of the academy. This also corresponds to the sentence: success is also Xiao He ...... failure.

John chose Jim Carrey for another particular reason, and that is the low salary, which can be hired for less than $1 million. Jim Carrey became famous after starring in "Detective Plane Head" in 94, and his salary was raised, and the last time it was as high as 20 million US dollars. As for now, the king of comedy is not so famous, so the salary is not high.

And the heroine of the film, Andy McDowell, John is also ready to replace, her southern accent is too obvious, which will add work to the later stage of the film, and her acting skills are also very good, so John is ready to replace her with Sandra Bullock.

Sandra Bullock is not only prettier than Andy McDowell, but also a powerful actor. won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards in later generations, and is a real actress. It's just that now, like Jim Carrey, he is not famous, so the salary is not high, which undoubtedly makes John pick up a bargain.

John believes that in this life, the movie "Stealing Love", with the appearance of two powerful actors, the quality should be much better than in the previous life, as for the box office of the film, John's requirements are not high, as long as he can be the same as in his previous life, he will be satisfied.